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Image Credit Header image: Artwork by Professor Lubaina Himid, CBE. Photo: @Denise Swanson

Clive Alan Palmer

Senior Lecturer in Sports Pedagogy, PE and Outdoor Education

School of Sport and Health Sciences

Qualitative research methods, Ethnography and sports philsophy, Aesthetics and arts-based research, Physical Education and Sports pedagogy, Research Informed Teaching, The senses and sensory learning

Clive Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire. An experienced teacher and researcher he was awarded his PhD on Aesthetic Evaluation in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics from Liverpool John Moores University in 2003. He has since written widely in socio-cultural areas of sport crossing philosophy, education and qualitative research. He is a strong advocate of research informed teaching and actively promotes opportunities to showcase student writing which communicates experiences and discoveries through the study of sport. His academic interests include gymnastics, ethnography, aesthetics and the philosophy of sport, physical education, sport’s pedagogy and outdoor education.

B.Ed (Hons) Outdoor and Science Education (Secondary QTS) MA Physical Education Sport and Dance PhD: Title: A qualitative investigation of aesthetic evaluation of Men's Artistic Gymnastics

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  1. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 and Larson, Mitchell Jonathan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-5506-0815 (2014) When (or how) do the Olympics become stale? Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics . ISSN 1743-0437
  2. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2014) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications, Preston. ISBN 978-0-9566270-6-3
  3. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811, Creswell, Anna and Loveday, Rachel (2015) Crealivity: using creativity to portray reality. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 9 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1754-2375
  4. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 and Busko, Aimee (2016) Outdoor Learning through the school day – the National Curriculum in a tent. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 10 (1). pp. 1-60. ISSN 1754-2375
  5. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2016) Boots-and-me: an ethno-sensual account of love, dedication and smelly old boots. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 10 (1). pp. 269-292. ISSN 1754-2375
  6. Pryle, Joseph and Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2015) Calypso cricket: connecting cultures in California. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 9 (1). pp. 195-218. ISSN 1754-2375
  7. Palmer, Clive Alan and Torevell, David, eds. (2008) The turn to aesthetics: an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool Hope University. ISBN 978-0-9515847-3-6
  8. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2009) The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing. Centre for Research Informed Teaching, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.. ISBN 978-0-9562343-2-2
  9. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2009) The Sporting Image: Sports Poetry and Creative Writing. University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK.. ISBN 978-0-9562343-2-2
  10. Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2008) Inroduction: The turn to aesthetics: An interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. In: The turn to aesthetics: An interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in applied and philosophical aesthetics. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, pp. 1-4. ISBN 978-0-9515874-3-6
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